The Knickerbocker
The Knickerbocker , also New-York Monthly Magazine , was a literary monthly magazine. It was founded by Charles Fenno Hoffman in 1833 and was published until 1859. Its editor was Lewis Gaylord Clark .
The circle of writers who contributed to the magazine came to be known as the Knickerbocker Writers . The group was joined by authors such as Washington Irving , Fitz Hugh Ludlow , William Cullen Bryant , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , Oliver Wendell Holmes .
James Russell Lowell , Bayard Taylor , George William Curtis , Richard Henry Stoddard , Elizabeth Clementine Stedman , John Greenleaf Whittier , Horace Greeley and James Fenimore Cooper , Frederick Swartwout Cozzens also contributed.